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An Act authorizing Mary E. M'Donough, of the State of Maryland, to remove a certain female slave from the State of Delaware into that State. 1827 147 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0115 and id is 1 raw text is: OF DELAWARE. CHAPTER LVIII. CHAPTER Ll iIl. AN ACT authorizing Mary E. MI'Donoughj of the 117* State of Maryland, to remove a certain female slave from the State of Delaware into that State. PASSED AT DOVER, PRIVATE ACT. February 8, 1827. P CHAPTER LIX. AN ACT to authorize the cutting a ditch or drain from Baucumbrig into .Murderkili creek. SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House ofRep- Commission- resentatives of the State of Delaware, in General Asseln- elasoIuedto bly met, That Cornelius )ewees, Elias Fleming, Curtis sum requisite to B. Beswick, Abraham Gullet, and Caleb Sipple I e and at th ii'I-te they are hereby appointed commissioners to go upon and ot assesIment, view the marshes and low-grounds, on a creek or gut cal- &e. led Baucumbrig: and after viewing the same, they, or a majority of them, shall ascertain and determine what owners of said marshes and low-grounds Will bebenefitted, and shall appraise all the said marshes and low-grounds which, in their opinion, or the opinion of a majority of them, will be benefitted by the said ditch or drain, by fix- ing the value thereof per acre, according to situation, and upon such principles as will do equal and exactjIstie to all parties ; which said appraisement shall be the rate of assessment for all taxes to be laid under this act; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall estimate the sum of money requisite to cut and make said ditch or drain, and shal' apportion, lay and assess the same up- on the said value, so fixed, of said marshes and low- grounds, according to a certain rate for every dollar of said value, and so pro rata, and shall apportion the same sum of money among the respective owners accordingly. And the said commissioners shall make two certificates, Two certifcates to be signed by them, or a majority of them, describing toibe made,at the ditch or drain as laid out, and containing the names ofiich, and Col- the owners of the said marshes and low-grounds and tainin1g Ines of quantities thereof held by them respectively, the ap- Owners, &C. praiseient or valuation, and the taxes laid. One of the One certificate said certificates shall be deposited in the office for record- to be recorded, ing of deeds in and for Kent county, and shall be there Iiv the other recorded by the recorder of deeds for said county, and a treasurer. 147

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